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The first 2022 daffodil from our garden. Advantaged by coming indoors on Sunday.
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This doorway is on Broad Street. I liked the bench and shadows. The boot scraper always reminds me of how filthy streets used to be with open sewers and no street cleaning. I think it was Ben Franklin who invented street cleaning, all those years ago (but well after this boot scraper was fitted obviously). I think there's a horse mounting block in the car park here behind the building.
Voigtlander Vito II camera
Color-Skopar 50mm f/3.5 camera
Lomo CN400 film
Lab develop & scan
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I seriously hope I look this good when I am seventy two years old (and counting). This is the original first Chevrolet Corvette from 1953. From what I have read, it didn't exactly set the world on fire when first released. The first year saw only 300 made, and they didn't all sell. Not great or particularly sporting to drive, mainly due to only having a straight six cylinder engine and a 2 speed automatic transmission. And it only came in one colour - Polo White with a red interior.
But, it did look so wonderful for the era, and it is where the Corvette started.
I cannot wait to 'drive' this one!
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A 1/18th scale model 1953 Chevrolet Corvette C1 by model maker AUTOart. This is one of only two pre-owned models in my ever growing set. A little hard to find now as they were released many years ago around 2004 and in limited numbers. I'm very happy to have it in my collection!
A ten image focus stack taken and processed with the Canon R10, RF 100-400 zoom lens and shot in a mix of diffused natural daylight and warm white LED lighting.
These wooden groynes are spaced along the length of Portobello Beach, to help protect from the sand drifting too much. This one, number four, also has some tiny sculptures on it (if you zoom in!), a local creator adds them now and then to brighten the world
have fun being dead number two, you were a stupid little trollop and i hope you're burning in hell right now
For Macro Mondays - Abstract.
Bird of Paradise leaf transilluminated by mid-day sun. A second leaf behind is casting a shadow - both are moving in the breeze...
This detail is 2.5 inches in greatest dimension.
1948 Tucker
Some might say that Preston Tucker was a genius, and whether that's true, or not, is certainly debatable. But, I think we all could agree that he was a visionary with his car, and it's design. Advanced concepts that would take years and even decades for other car manufacturers to follow suit with, if at all. Air cooled rear engines, front wheel drive, electric assist manual transmission shifter, safety features largely unheard of in production cars at the time. Features like pop out windshield in the event of an accident, disc brakes, seat belts, padded dash, front right passenger safety zone, a third headlight that moved as the car turned, surely, I missed some. Some of these already had found a home in his first effort, the '48, and if he had remained in business his later models would have included those items not yet on the 48. The car I will show over the next series of shots was present at the annual Lime Rock Labor Day event in '24. It happens to be the 44th one produced out of the 51 he made before he, and his company got into trouble. The Big 3 had to be threatened by Preston's dream car, and one has to wonder what role they had played in Tucker's eventual demise? What made seeing this car special at the show was a chance to meet and talk with Tucker's great grandsons, twins I believe, and they had brought number 44 to the show.
From the Alpine Meadow Road Bridge Number 19c-0255.
The Truckee River is the only outlet from Lake Tahoe. The lake is full, so the river is nice and full this year.
Truckee is in Nevada County, California.
number 5 and probably my final image in my Wet theme for this week. A drizzly, damp and muddy morning in Norfolk UK in 2014.
We have visited this waterfall a number of times before. Most shoot this from the left side of the falls, as have I. The trails take you right up to the face of the falls. That's easy enough. However I have always wanted to see what it looked like from the far right side. Trouble is, that side is hard to get to. First, you have to cross the river. I guess that's no biggie but it's not an easy river to cross. This time I brought my waders. I have not had good luck with these in the past, in fact they caused me to fill my camera bag with water in the past. See, the bottom of the feet are hard plastic and they get no traction on the rocks. Anyway, this time they worked well.
So once across the river, you are facing a wall of delicate moss. This is one of the reasons to see this waterfall. Being one of those that always tries to be unbelievably respectful of the landscape, this created the biggest challenge. I needed to get up and almost behind the moss covered hill to see the smaller series of falls that usually hide in the shadows. I started by staying in the many small streams that fall down the hill face because there is no chance for footprints in the moss. Once over there I saw that I was not the first to try to walk up to this side. It seemed my predicessor also tread lightly. Even so, I could see thier footprints, so I followed those to minimize my trek.
It was a slow climb, not because it was hard, but because of the care taken. I had finally reached the top and I have to be honest, I was not all that impressed. Well, I was there, let's see what I can do. I wanted the full scene so I reached for the fisheye. This is an all new fisheye for me. My classic Tokina 10-17 has now left the bag and a new Sigma 8mm has entered the scene. This was my first outing with this glass. It worked well, but it was not weather sealed and being at the top of the moss hill it was clear why the moss was there. I was getting soaked. Wipe, shoot. Wipe, shoot. Wipe shoot. By the time I left the hill I was soaked. So was the gear.
So this is a bracket blend because it was dark up there under the trees at the top of moss mountain. Let me know what you think.